personal website

welcome

I have created these pages to let you know a bit more about myself and my work.

I am Margarita Gerouki and I am from Greece. My origins are to be found in a small village, Katafigio, in central Greece , on the mountains of Agrafa.

I worked for my years as a primary school teacher. In 1999 I moved to Finland to work as a teacher of Greek for the Greek-Finnish community and pursue studies in Health Education in the University of Jyväskylä. I completed my Master's degree in 2004. My topic was about sexuality and relationships education, particularly, the introduction of the subject in the Greek primary school. I have lived in Helsinki for 12 years, seven of them with my husband who is from Finland and our son. In 2010 I have completed my postgraduate studies (Doctorate in Education) in the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, department of Teacher Education. For my PhD research I continued with exploring the issue of sexuality and relationships education in the Greek school context. Sexuality and Relationships education has been ignored by educational authorities in many countries. I believe that this is a serious mistake and teachers need to be better prepared. In the past years I have contributed teaching in Greece about sexuality and gender. I was appointedas an Educational Adviserand worked in Greece from February 2012 until September 2018. On September of 2018 we moved back to Finland.

In this website you can find a link to my e-portfolio (in English and Greek) where I present my academic and proffesional work, also, a link to my Educational Adviser's weblog (in Greek).